FACULTY PROFILE

Name : Dr. Manjari Katju

Designation : Professor & Head
Centre/Department/School : Department of Political Science/ School of Social Sciences
Office Phone : 91-40-23133224
Email : mkatju@gmail.com, mkss@uohyd.ernet.in
Qualifications
❖ PhD, 1998, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
❖ MPhil, 1994, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Areas of Interest/Specialization
Hindu right-wing politics, Religious violence in India and the Functioning of state
institutions in India.

Select Publications
❖ Vishva Hindu Parishadand Indian Politics, 2003 (paperback edition 2010),
Hyderabad: Orient Longman/Orient Blackswan.

❖ Hinduising Democracy: The Vishva Hindu Parishad in Contemporary India,

2017, New Delhi: New Text.

❖ ‘Mass Politics and Institutional Restraint: Political Parties and the Election
Commission of India’, Studies in Indian Politics, 4 (1), 77-89, June 2016.

❖ “The None of the Above Option”, 2013, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVIII
(42), 19 October.
❖ “Constitutions and Its Institutions”, 2013. In Indian Democracy , ed. K.C.Suri,
(Political Science: ICSSR Research Surveys and Explorations) Vol. 2, 53-99.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

❖ “The Understanding of Freedom in Hindutva”, 2011, Social Scientist, 39 (3-4),

March-April.